Introduction

Adolescence is a crucial stage in the emergence and consolidation of fraudulent behaviours such as bullying, due to factors such as the need to belong to a peer group and the processes of constructing one's own identity. This study analyses how bullying behaviours manifest themselves among the adolescent population.

Methods

A sample of 129 adolescent students aged between 9 and 15 years old was used. The AVE test was used as a diagnostic tool to prevent, identify and treat the problem of bullying.

Results

The results show that around 24% of the sample was in a situation of victimisation or at risk of harassment, while the remaining 76% showed no signs of suffering from it. Analysis of the relationships between the different types of bullying indicated that some forms of violence appear independently: assaults, threats, social exclusion, coercion and exclusion. However, some specific associations were observed: bullying was related to assaults and threats; intimidation was linked to assaults, social exclusion and bullying; and manipulation was linked to social exclusion.

Although gender differences were not significant, it was observed that the percentage of girls who reported being victims of bullying was higher than that of boys in all types of bullying, especially in assaults, threats, intimidation, and manipulation.

Conclusions

The results reveal that bullying in adolescence is a phenomenon that can take different forms depending on gender. This highlights the need to design awareness-raising and prevention interventions against bullying during this stage of education. Furthermore, future research should delve deeper into other manifestations of peer violence, such as sexual harassment, given its relevance in the literature on adolescence.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly shapes contemporary human experience, influencing critical domains such as employment, healthcare, education, finance, and digital governance. Despite its promise of neutrality and efficiency, growing empirical research demonstrates that AI systems frequently reproduce and intensify existing gender inequalities embedded within historical data, algorithmic design, and socio-technical infrastructures. These algorithmic biases disproportionately marginalize women and other vulnerable groups, thereby raising profound ethical, social, and theological concerns. This study critically examines the phenomenon of gender bias in AI through the normative framework of Islamic principles of justice (ʿadl) and human dignity (karāmat al-insān).
Grounded in Qur’anic teachings and Prophetic traditions, Islam articulates a comprehensive moral vision rooted in equity, accountability, and the inherent dignity of every human being. The paper argues that these foundational principles provide a robust ethical paradigm for evaluating and regulating emerging technologies. By engaging contemporary case studies including discriminatory hiring algorithms, biased facial recognition systems, and gendered patterns of digital surveillance, this study highlights how algorithmic systems can conflict with the Islamic commitment to fairness, non-harm (la darar wa la dirar), and social responsibility.
Methodologically, this study adopts a qualitative analytical approach, synthesizing interdisciplinary scholarship from gender studies, AI ethics, and Islamic intellectual tradition. It proposes a faith-informed ethical framework that emphasizes transparency, inclusivity, accountability, and moral intentionality in AI development and governance.
The paper concludes that confronting gender bias in AI is not solely a technical correction but also a moral and civilizational responsibility. Islamic ethical thought offers valuable normative resources capable of contributing to global AI governance debates, ensuring that technological advancement remains aligned with justice, dignity, and human flourishing.

In recent years, the story of Su Min, a middle-aged Chinese woman who left an unhappy marriage and began documenting her solo road trips on social media, has circulated widely across Chinese digital platforms. Almost immediately, online commentators framed her action as an instance of “chuzou” (出走) which literally means “walking out,” but which also carries connotations of escape, breaking free, and refusal. This study argues that the rapid attachment of this label reveals the persistence of chuzou as a cultural keyword in contemporary Chinese discourse. Drawing on Raymond Williams’ concept of “keywords”, this study examines how it condenses layered literary memories, feminist aspirations, and ongoing social anxieties surrounding gender, family, and mobility.

Historically, chuzou is deeply embedded in modern Chinese cultural history, most famously associated with debates over “Nora’s departure” following the Chinese reception of A Doll's House in the early 20^th century. Since then, this figure has served as a powerful symbol in discussions of women’s emancipation. In contemporary digital culture, however, the term has been revived in new ways. Chuzou increasingly operates as a flexible interpretive label through which online users frame diverse acts of female mobility, from leaving marriages to rejecting filial expectations, including viral online discussions such as the so-called “unfilial daughter’s departure” during the 2026 Spring Festival.

Based on a qualitative discourse analysis of social media posts, comment threads, and related online discussions, this study traces how chuzou travels across literary, cultural, and digital contexts. It shows how online publics rely on historically sedimented cultural vocabulary to interpret contemporary social events: how a historically rooted feminist term has become a shared interpretive frame through which internet users debate women’s mobility, family obligations, and the legitimacy of leaving marriage in contemporary China.

Introduction:

Modern academic scholarship is often presented as neutral, objective, and value-free. Feminist scholarship, however, has long challenged this assumption by demonstrating that knowledge production is embedded within relations of power, institutional norms, and epistemic hierarchies. This paper examines the conditions under which research becomes possible in contemporary academia by analysing how epistemic power and institutional rationalities shape what counts as legitimate knowledge, who is recognised as a legitimate knower, and which forms of research are enabled or marginalised.

Methods:

The study adopts a theoretical and conceptual approach grounded in feminist epistemology, critical theory, and the sociology of knowledge. It conceptualises academia as a cultural system structured by institutional rationalities such as productivity metrics, funding regimes, audit cultures, and the growing demand for measurable impact. Analytical insights are drawn from feminist concepts, including situated knowledge, standpoint theory, and epistemic injustice.

Results:

The analysis demonstrates that institutional rationalities do not merely regulate research administratively but actively shape epistemic values and research priorities. They privilege particular methodologies, disciplines, and research agendas while marginalising critical, reflexive, and interdisciplinary forms of inquiry. These dynamics disproportionately affect women, early-career scholars, and researchers engaged in critical, decolonial, or non-mainstream scholarship, particularly in the Global South. Furthermore, these institutional expectations become internalised through everyday academic practices such as grant writing, peer review, publication standards, and evaluation systems, thereby reproducing dominant knowledge traditions.

Conclusion:

By framing research as a cultural and political practice, this paper contributes to debates on the politics of knowledge production in contemporary academia. It argues that feminist critique provides both an analytical and ethical framework for rethinking research cultures and calls for more inclusive, reflexive, and socially responsible conditions for knowledge production.

Menstrual health is not just a biological concern; it is an understudied dimension of public health and human capital formation, shaped by education, sanitation infrastructure and prevailing social norms. Menstruation is a normal part of life for most women and girls, yet cultural taboos and a lack of information continue to influence how it is understood and managed.
This paper examines the role of literacy and structural factors on menstrual health practices among women in India. This study uses secondary data from NFHS-5 to focus on state-level variations in the use of hygienic menstrual methods and behavioural practices.
This research uses descriptive analysis to identify regional differences in menstrual health outcomes and determine the relationship between literacy levels of women, access to household sanitation amenities, adolescent childbearing, and menstrual hygiene behaviour. Regression analysis has been used to measure the effect of literacy and structural factors on menstrual health practices across states and union territories.
This paper aims to inform policy discussions on gender-responsive interventions in human capital and development by situating menstrual health within a broader context of human capital and development. Empowering literacy and enhancing access to basic sanitation have become essential elements of inclusive developmental approaches to menstrual health inequities in India.

Western representations of menopause are marked by a disqualification rooted in the gender system (Martin, 1987; Kaufert, 1988; Arber and Ginn, 1991). The “double standard of aging” (Sontag, 1972) produces a hierarchy of legitimacy for female and male bodies: while male aging is synonymous with maturity, female aging is associated with loss (of fertility, of attractiveness). In contrast to the young and fertile body of “hegemonic femininity” (Schippers, 2007), the menopausal body appears minor and invisible. The biomedical perspective associates menopause with hormonal deficiency, symptoms, and risks (Lock, 1993), a narrative long echoed by traditional media. The 2000s, marked by a resurgence of feminist movements (Bard and Chaperon, 2017), provided the framework for a repoliticization of bodies and physiologies. Alternative discourses to the previously dominant ones challenged the invisibility of female aging. Online spaces (podcasts, websites, Instagram accounts, Facebook pages), created by "lay" women, bear witness to a movement of emancipation from the biomedical perspective. Based on online ethnography and a lexicometric analysis of a French corpus of Facebook and Instagram posts collected between 2018 and 2024, we propose to examine how these digital platforms are used in relation to menopause and the resulting effects on the social construction of the menopausal body. We will show that menopause-related content on Facebook and Instagram is structured around three themes that do not elicit the same levels of engagement: personal development, biomedicine and the legitimization of menopause. We will then demonstrate how the most visible publications advocate for a “discipline” of the body (Foucault, 1975) within a landscape of “online care” (Botero, Sedda, and Husson, 2023). Finally, we will see that, in these digital spaces, menopause becomes a prime arena for self-presentation, the renegotiation of “stigma” (Goffman, 1975), and its potential monetization by new figures emerging from online discussions on female aging.

Minority stress remains a significant challenge in lesbian relationships because it affects both individual wellbeing and relationship stability. Although previous studies have documented the harmful effects of stigma, discrimination, and concealment, limited attention has been given to how these stressors are negotiated across everyday temporal and spatial contexts. This study addresses that gap by examining how chronotopes of minority stress shape relationship stability in lesbian partnerships. In this study, chronotopes refer to recurring temporal and spatial contexts in which stress is experienced and managed. A qualitative systematic review was conducted following PRISMA 2020. This study analyzed 38 Scopus-indexed journal articles published from 2015 to 2025, with article screening and organization supported by Watase Uake. The analysis identified four recurrent chronotopes: domestic, occupational, public or institutional, and digital. Relationship stability was more likely when partners used coordinated coping strategies, including aligning daily routines, managing disclosure, and accessing supportive communities and institutional protections. In contrast, instability was more likely when couples faced conflicting temporal demands, uneven visibility, and repeated exposure to hostile environments. These results indicate that resilience in lesbian relationships is shaped not only by exposure to minority stress but also by how couples negotiate time, space, and visibility under heteronormative and structurally unequal conditions.

The aim of this research is to determine the perceived susceptibility to health risks of women day labourers, understand their perceived severity regarding menstrual health, and assess the coping strategies they use when facing menstrual problems. In construction sites, working women are at high risk of various health concerns due to hazardous working environments. Compared to general occupational risks, female construction workers face additional health and safety difficulties due to inadequate facilities, lack of clean toilets, and the high cost of menstrual products. This research used primary data gathered from informal interviews, in-depth interviews, case studies, a key-informant interview, and group discussions. The Uposhohor B and C block construction sites were selected as the study area. The study population included 55 women workers; among them, 14 in-depth interviews were conducted purposively using a semi-structured open-ended questionnaire. Interviews were carried out face-to-face and audio recorded where possible, and later, the data were transcribed and analyzed using thematic analysis in line with research questions and literature review, where secondary data were collected from related literature, journals, and websites. Before menarche, women construction workers had no information about menstruation, and they had limited knowledge about menstruation and menstrual hygiene; they wore clothes during periods instead of sanitary napkins, which can lead to health problems. Moreover, they often use the same cloth throughout the day during their periods, which increases their susceptibility to illnesses. Menstrual cramps, itching, urinary problems, and skin infections were commonly regarded as normal during menstruation. The majority of the workers are unaware of the importance of hygienic menstrual practices. Additionally, there are many misunderstandings about menstruation among women workers even after menarche. These findings indicate that low perceived susceptibility and low perceived severity of menstrual health problems contribute to unhygienic practices and ineffective coping strategies among women day labourers.

This study explores how gender markers are translated in Indonesian–English bilingual museum texts and how these translation choices influence the representation of women in institutional narratives. In multilingual museums, translation is not only a matter of transferring meaning between languages. It also plays a role in shaping how gender is made visible or invisible. While gender issues have received attention in translation studies, research that closely examines gender markers in museum translation is still limited.

This study is based on 25 pairs of source and target language captions taken from permanent exhibition texts at the Sangiran Early Man Site, specifically the Krikilan Museum complex. Using a qualitative approach, the analysis focuses on translation shifts related to grammatical gender, pronoun use, and generic masculine forms. This study is based on feminist translation theory and critical discourse analysis (CDA), both of which view translation as an ideological practice rather than a neutral technical process.

Feminist translation theory is used to examine how specific strategies, such as neutralization, over-marking, addition, and compensation, affect the visibility of women in the target text. These strategies are assessed to determine whether translation choices maintain, weaken, or strengthen gender representation. CDA supports this analysis by connecting small-scale linguistic choices to broader institutional discourses on authority, knowledge, and gender hierarchy in museum narratives.

The findings are expected to show that limited attention to gender markers, especially the uncritical use of generic masculine forms or inappropriate gender neutralization, can contribute to the invisibilities of women. In contrast, gender-aware translation strategies may improve representational accuracy and inclusivity. By highlighting gender markers as a key aspect of translation quality, this study contributes to more inclusive practices in museum translation.

Education is the parameter to measure societal change, economic progress and modernization. It is instrumental in assessing literacy, knowledge and skill of the population. Bardhaman district of West Bengal (India) is one of the most populous districts of the state, due to its industries and urban development. The district has an innumerable number of schools, colleges, training institutes, some even dating back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Several studies have been conducted on enrollment of students in different academic levels and literacy drives; however, separate studies on female education and their engagement as teaching professionals in the area are untouched. Today’s society is addressing the global issue of gender equality in pursuit of a more inclusive and equitable world. Against this backdrop, my research attempts to contribute to this discourse. This paper aims to examine the role and contribution of female teachers in the sphere of educational development, in the industrial belt of Asansol–Durgapur in Bardhaman district. The prime objective of this micro-level initiative is to incorporate regional studies in the broader arena of macro-studies with its discourses. The methodology used to carry out this research is a quantitative analysis of statistical data obtained from several Government and Non-governmental records. These data have been corroborated with quantitative and qualitative data obtained from field surveys, interviews and informal conversations. The findings suggest that women literacy was found to be satisfactory, but their engagement as professionals remained a small entity. However, emphasis has been given to women breaking gender stereotypes— from women taking initiative to setup girls’ schools to those who worked together with their male staff in educational institutions. Therefore this study on female educationists and academicians is a gendered one, where women’s work and identity is being camouflaged.